A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. The disease that the virus causes has been named COVID-19, which stands for coronavirus disease 2019. 'Until this new coronavirus was identified, there were only six different coronaviruses known to infect humans. How does the virus spread? This is a similar death rate to the Spanish Flu outbreak which, in 1918, went on to kill around 50million people.

Source: Daily Mail March 20, 2020 09:13 UTC